4/6/2012 update: And this morning after wasting a bit of our county DA’s time Randy Geller folded and gave up the contracts and invoices for the two firms UO has hired to advise them on the union organizing effort, here. One is with Stephen Hirschfeld of the SF firm Curiale…
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Updated with union response to Geller at bottom 4/5/2012. It’s the trade union / IWW split all over again. Sam Stites has the quotes in the ODE. Diane Dietz has more in the RG. And an actual numerator and denominator: On March 13, members of the United Academics of the…
4/5/2012: The UO Matters readership is mostly Johnson Hall administrators seeing if I’ve posted anything they can sue me over, plus a few faculty. But occasionally a student stops by. For their benefit I’m posting this link from the Commentator, by Rebecca X: ASUO ELECTIONS ’12: The Official Oregon Commentator…
4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight: “It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.” DPS still has…
4/5/2012: From Betsy Swanback in ODE. Good quotes.
4/4/2012: UO’s accounting system is pretty detailed. There are thousands of accounting codes for everything from engraving to cheese to consulting contracts. But General Counsel Randy Geller’s budget puts more than a quarter of its expenditures under “miscellaneous”. Presumably the money we are paying for Chip Kelly’s NCAA cleanup lawyer…
From the RG. Prison time for cheating the yuppies with fake organic corn?
4/4/2012 8:00 AM update: 483 for the secret ballot (need ~600), 363 for the no TTFs. Best to sign by noon if you are going to sign. 4/3/2012 9:45 AM update: 459 for the secret ballot (need ~600), 352 for the no TTFs. If you want to sign these petitions…
is not getting a lot of respect from the Oregonian’s Steve Duin.
4/3/2012: In a previous post I said that Provost Bean was being paid 60% of his administrative salary and a BMW while he was on a sabbatical to do research in his field of genetic algorithms and operations research. My statements were false. Bean is not getting a Beamer while…
4/3/2012: From Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Teachers at Reynolds Arthur Academy in Troutdale spurred the biggest gains in individual students’ reading and math scores of any elementary charter school in the nation the past two years. For that, a national charter group soon will hand each of them and…
4/2/2012: From the NYT: Reagan’s strongest margins were among the college educated, who backed him over Walter F. Mondale by a crushing 62.7-36.9 margin. Among all those with both college and advanced degrees, Reagan won 58.7 percent, a landslide margin. … By 2008, the Republican advantage of the early 1980s…
Apparently Frohnmayer’s got a conflict on this one, but I hear Melinda Grier is available. An email circulated to TTF today, 4/2/2012: Dear Colleagues, On the Friday of winter-term finals week, a group of tenure track faculty members distributed a petition that expresses some of our objections to the union’s…
4/2/2012: That’s the word from the union website update, in a post that also criticizes the petitions, here: We sincerely hope that the university administration will recognize the will of the majority of the faculty and maintain its previously public statement of neutrality. It now appears that the UO administration…
At PSU. A reader sends this, by Jennifer Schuberth, an assistant professor of religion at Portland State University: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/04/psu_stakeholders_need_transpar.htmlOn the question of whether a faculty union will promote more transparency and a “better” allocation of resources by the administration: “Like many students and faculty, I have been frustrated by the…